Tesla stopped the practice, but it continued to deliver every car with Autopilot hardware and leave the choice to activate the features as options to the owner – either when ordering the car or as an over-the-air update later.

You’ll get a notification to your touchscreen when the trial is ready. If you select ‘Enable’, all Enhanced Autopilot features, including Autosteer and Auto Lane Change, will immediately be activated and available to use.

Please only enable these features if you will pay attention to the road, keep your hands on the steering wheel, and be prepared to take over at all times.

Tesla also launched a support page for the trial on its website where they say that owners “will have the option to purchase permanent Autopilot functionality via the car’s touchscreen or through your Tesla Account at any time during or after the trial.”

When purchased after delivery, the Enhanced Autopilot package described above costs $6,000.

But I expect the take rate to be lower for the Model 3, which should give those new Autopilot trials an opportunity for Tesla to convince many owners to buy the driver assist system.

It could result in a much-needed boost of revenue for a low cost as Tesla is attempting to become profitable this quarter.

Though if owners activate the trial this week, it looks like they wouldn’t get to try Autopilot under version 9, which shouldn’t roll out to the wider fleet until next month.

It looks like Tesla thinks that the current version of Autopilot should be enough to convince those owners and if they want to have Autopilot under version 9, they will have to pay after the trial is over.